FTP Image Transfer Tutorial

NOTE: This tutorial is still in progress!

Introduction

In this tutorial we'll use a camera module to take pictures and send them to a custom server using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Note that FTP can be used for any other file type, not just images, so feel free to adapt this to your particular use cases. If you want to experiment with this feature but don't want to buy a camera module, no worries, you can do this quite easily just by using a sample image.

NOTE: This tutorial assumes that you are already comfortable with the features of the Botletics shield and have everything set up. Please see the rest of this wiki if you haven't already.

Parts Needed

Below are all the parts you will need for this project:

Botletics SIM7000 shield kit
Hologram SIM card. Note: You may need a different SIM card depending on where you live.
3.7V LiPo battery. Note: 1000mAH or greater capacity.
Arduino Mega (or compatible). Note: Arduino Uno will NOT work! The Mega is needed here because of hardware serial and memory.
ArduCAM camera module. Note: You can use pretty much any ArduCAM module and it will work as long as their library supports it.

Setting up FTP Server

First of all, we'll need an FTP server. Luckily this is quite easy to set up and Windows has these features conveniently built in for us. For Windows 10, please follow this really good tutorial on how to set up an FTP server.